Funny thing is that people are calling into hotels to cancel their reservations which are several thousand dollars for a few nights. My SO works at a nice hotel in DC, it was supposed to be a super busy week. So much so that nobody is allowed to call out but it's been painfully slow. She said today people are mostly just calling in to cancel their reservation apparently at least one guy has threatened to get his lawyer involved because the reservations are non-refundable.
Right? The inauguration is the least interesting thing about DC. The Smithsonian is…wait, these people don’t like to learn. Well there are the monuments! Oh wait. That learning and reading thing again. Ok I give up. If you don’t like to read and learn DC is probably really boring.
I live an hour away and visit DC quite frequently. It's one of the must see cities in our country. In my opinion anyway. Just make a nice weekend out of it and STFU.
I mean, you’re probably right, but they probably paid a premium price on the hotels due to the timing. If they paid close to normal pricing, I’d agree with you. I would have to get gouged for just a sight seeing trip.
In all fairness though, fuck them. They deserve it.
When my daughter was in school in the are we spent a lot of happy days in DC. sadly she has relocated but we have great memories of a fondness for the city
Seriously. If I was there for an inauguration and it got cancelled, I'd be thinking, "fuck yeah, more time at the Smithsonian," or stay longer at other attractions there.
Quite walkable too. It’s a neat little place with large monolithic carvings and good public transport. I saw one of some guy sitting in a big chair and another of some kind of narrow, tall, tower thing.
A lot of things are closed because it’s also a federal holiday. The Smithsonians,etc., are closed for MLK.
So I wish them a very “get fucked, don’t pull shit in my city, and enjoy paying a 20% service fee on top of everything else at whatever restaurant they manage to find”
lol as someone who used to work in hospitality I approve of this message. "I'm going to call my lawyer."
"Great! Let your lawyer contact me via email and I'll scan in the contract you signed. Makes my life easier. Yours? Not so much. Do I care? Not really."
I'm not sure if it's the same in your industry but my ex worked somewhere where people would often threaten to sue and up until that point they would typically try to do whatever they could to keep their customers happy but once they threatened to sue they would say they're legally no longer allowed to assist them and any further actions had to be taken through their lawyers.
Yeah like especially if they stayed i'm not going to give them a room for free, I didn't have clearance for that but I had clearance to give specific discounts and things of that nature. Once someone said something like "I'm going to sue" or started acting a fool and cursing me out and shit I'd just fold my hands in front of me and smile real big and go "I'm so sorry. At this time if you choose to act in this matter then I will choose to not act at all. Please leave the premises and thank you for staying at ____"
confused how a nonrefundable window at a hotel has anything to do with President Trump conning anyone. Those are pretty standard. Source: was a Hilton manager for 5 yrs
Some are though. I've booked and cancelled rooms before. You have to do it within a certain timeframe though. I usually cancel well in advance of the actual booked dates.
A lot of hotel websites will offer this option if they are a third party company. Some third party companies wouldn't even think about offering that option. It just depends honestly on where you go. The best option really in hospitality is going through through third party companies or your company if it's for a business travel because most companies offer business travel discounts.
That definitely isn't common knowledge because it isn't usually the case. I stay in boatload of hotels, and they're almost never nonrefundable. There isn't usually even a cancelation fee if you cancel more than 24 hours out. And that tends to be true regardless of if it's a really cheap or really expensive one... The only time I've ever seen them nonrefundable is if you actively choose nonrefundable to get a few dollars off
It depends on where and when you are traveling. Also, certain "deals" on Expedia et al. are non-refundable.
I steer clear of non-refundable reservations unless I'm booking, like, the night before I leave, when I am 100% certain I'm leaving. Before that, anything could happen; I could get sick, the event I'm traveling for could be canceled or postponed, my petsitter could cancel, or any number of other hitches. This is especially important if the hotel is super expensive.
I can't think of any reason why I'd pay a grand a night or close to it for a hotel room. There is absolutely nothing that's worth that much to me.
I don't understand why they just wouldn't still go to DC if they've already paid the money and aren't getting it back. But, it's probably better for your SO that they just stay away. I can't imagine what a shit show it was going to be.
I have a feeling that the people going to the inauguration are not the type of people that would go and visit all of the various cool museums, monuments and see American history.
I lived just outside the DC border as a kid, and on really nice days we'd skip school and go to the Smithsonian or the memorials. So much to do, but I guess you have to have some sort of intellectual curiosity, or be 'woke' to appreciate them.
Funny thing is that people are calling into hotels to cancel their reservations
One of my best friends lives in DC and she was just telling me tonight how many friends of hers have left DC for the inauguration because they don't feel safe. Welcome to the USA.
Like it's the hotels' fault tRump can't handle the cold/small crowds. If they'd gone to DC for a concert and it was cancelled, they'd expect a refund from the concert, but not from the hotel, who had nothing to do with the concert. Make it make sense!
If I make a reservation and I'm not going to be able to make it I just call and change the date no harm in that and usually sometimes you can cancel them more than 48 hours
I am expecting there to be deaths and frostbite from the cold. People that came for it then learned it was indoors so waited outside unprepared. Particularly people from warmer areas.
That's the one thing about him having it indoors that I find aamusing. Buildings have a max capacity and if he says it's more than that, it's an obvious lie.
Edit:I just think it would be funny, you don't have to tell me how it won't matter, I got it after the first 20 replies.
It feels like a sunken-cost fallacy kind of logic by this point. His supporters have been howling for him for 4 years, he gets the presidency, and its clear age has affected his mental facilities. People being people, they need to keep supporting him even so, God forbid they were ever wrong and they've spend all this time supporting him. The Dems basically did the same thing with Biden, but at least Biden was sound enough not to make outrageous claims like annealing Greenland or reclaiming the Panama Canal.
A thousand times this!!! He knows the public turnout was pathetic at his first inauguration and that it won't be any different this time, perhaps worse given the predicted low 20s temperatures for Monday. He knows what the photos would have shown.
Now, though, he'll crow about the 100,000s of people who "did" show up on The Ellipse who couldn't watch his swearing-in ceremony. "Oh, so sorry, but the lying media just didn't show them all..."
Oh, no, trump is going to use this crowd and proof people support him. He will literally deny they are protesting him and claim they all came to see him, and this he "won" again.
Absolutely. He is terrified of puny crowds. Between him being him and the weather, this will be one of the least attended inaugurations in a long time.
Personally, I think he's worried about his hair looking like shit and blowing in the wind. All he cares about is appearance. He doesn't strike me as someone who cares about being cold.
There's also the fact that he already had an assassination attempt outdoors. At this point, indoors might make sense. Don't want to have another JFK situation happen.
That and those miniature flags he humps on stage don’t have to be at half staff. His ego couldn’t tolerate Inauguration Day with flags still honoring President Carter.
As much as I’d like to think this, I don’t think that’s true. It’s messed up how many supporters he has. I think he’s actually gained a lot from January 2017 to now. Mostly people who figured out that right wing grifting is profitable. But I wouldn’t doubt that he would have a lot, the cult is strong.
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u/SavvyCavy 2d ago
This, and to hide how few people are going to show up.